Author(s): 'Industries & Services' - François Milléquant & Hassan EL Asraoui

ABSTRACT
(cross-border co-operation, economic competition and complementarity, French-Belgian metropolis of Lille)
(Ieper, Kortrijk, Lille, Mouscron, Roeselare, Tournai)

At the request of the Cross-Border “Atelier”(workshop), François Milléquant and Hassan EL Asraoui (bureau “Industries & Services”) outline the economic situation in the crossborder metropolis on the basis of numerous tables, maps and graphs :
• demography
• levels of activity
• unemployment
• geographic, sectorial and functional distribution of employment
• employment trends
• cross-border interaction by commuter traffic
• multivariate analyses.
The outline concludes with a description of the competition and complementarity within the cross-border metropolis.